As
the Detroit Film Theatre took a summer break, the Afternoon Film Theatre
finished its series of Japanese films with Double
Suicide (1969) and The
Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970). The AFT then screened newsreels
that covered different periods from 1898 to 1945.

Music
filled the air at the Redford with one of its all-time favorite movies,
Singin'
in the Rain (1952), on June 4 and 5. Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds
starred in this highly acclaimed musical romantic comedy. Three weeks
later, on June 25 and 26, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy sang in their
first film together, Naughty
Marietta (1935).

June
11 brought the opening of the most popular film of the summerSteven
Spielberg's fantasy E.T.
It played at the still-open (as of June 2007) Allen Park and Showcase
Sterling Heights theaters, and at the following now-closed theaters: Beacon
East, Dearborn, Movies at Oakland, Movies at Twelve Oaks Mall, Old Orchard,
Quo Vadis, Showcase Pontiac, Towne, and Winchester. It also played at
six long-gone drive-ins (Ecorse Rd., Galaxy, Grand River, Gratiot, Waterford,
and Wayne).